"I predict PINK will be the next lime green." And,
so Kay Sorensen started us off on our adventure of rediscovering/reclaiming
pink. Pale, icy, rosy, hot pink, fuschia. And, to give our pink a base,
we're adding the basics: black and white. Sounds a bit like a joke but we'll
make it art instead.

Size: any but keep in mind the time limitation before starting something
huge.

Materials: Mixed media. At least 50% should be fabric and quilted.

Requirements: The only colors on the project should be black, white,
and pink (any shade). This should be new work started after December
2003.

My
quilt reminds me of a dark tropical night. I discharged & over
dyed black fabric with an original design that I drew. I embellished
it with beads, tulle, fancy threads and yarns & tinsel.

Marilyn Davis
Plainfield, VT

This quilt is meant to show
resignation and acceptance. The flowers on the left are Bleeding
Hearts from my garden. The silhouette is made from a picture of my
husband at the local cemetary. I knew right away what I was going
to make when I heard the colors of the challenge. All fabric came
from my stash as if it had been waiting for this piece. The mountain
in the background is a well known VT peak called Camel's Hump.

This was my second attempt
at the challenge. The first was a complete disaster! When I tossed
the first pink mess, I decided to go with something I really love doing—flowers.
They seemed a natural for pink. Each flower is built from three different
fabrics---with very few repeats. Most are of cotton but there are some
silks and one glitzy in the mix. This also gave me a chance to use
three of my difficult blacks and whites. The centers of the flowers
are made from a fly-tying material. Pink Phizzzz was quilted with cottons,
rayons, and metalics---and a lot of them!

Jamie Fingal
Orange, California

This original design
was originally a rubber stamp that I drew years ago. I enlarged
it to make this quilt. My daughter and I sitting on a big overstuffed
chair looking at her baby pictures in an album. I reduced the
pictures and printed them onto fabric to fit into the album.
Our faces and hands were photographed, changed to Black & White
and transferred to fabric. Commercial fabrics were used also.

I made this quilt as a
part of a series about my surroundings (challenge of Q.Art group – www.q-art.be).
The purpose was to look around us. For this quilt I didn’t
search for physical elements in my neighbourhood as a subject,
but I liked
to create an atmosphere.

“La vie en rose” is a French expression, and in this quilt you could
translate is as “seeing live true pink glasses”, in live it’s
not always easy to create a happy and cheerful atmosphere in the family,
but we have to try because a good atmosphere keeps life easier and healthier.

"From Out Of The Flames"16-1/2" x 21-1/2"

Jodi-Marie Horne
Leduc, Alberta, Canada

Materials Used: 100% commercial
cotton fabrics, Rayon Threads

Techniques: Raw Edge Appliqué, Fusible Appliqué, Machine Quilted

Statement: This experiment of transferring a fractal image to cloth was pure
joy! It also showed me how little pink I have in my stash!

This was a continuation of
a personal study I have been pursuing on Mandalas. The Spiral
Labyrinth represents the cycle of the moon in a walk through
the year. I could elaborate on what each embellishments represents
to me, but your walk will be a different one, enjoy, and find
peace in reflection.

I was shopping at Marshall
Field's at Woodfield in Illinois and saw all the ball gowns that
were pink, black and white. I have no need to wear a fancy ballgown...
there's not a lot of call for that when you're a suburban stay-at-home
mom! I'd look funny wearing one to a soccer game or to a PTO
meeting. So I decided to do one on fabric. This is my first challenge.

Hand
appliqued and hand beaded, I was just looking for a way to use
a particulary lush piece of commercial batik in a color I could
only describe as "Angel's Blood" pink. The base of
the piece is a commercial cotton banadana made in China

Sue Lemmo
Clearfield, PA

Fiery hot pink is one of my favorite
colors and I have an obsession with black and white patterns such as
checkerboards and polka dots. The challenge I try to set for myself
is to get past the “fabricness” of the materials and work
with them as a painter works with color, shape, and texture. The hardest
part for me was to find a variety of interesting solid pinks, but once
I found what I wanted, the rest came together.

I like to work in a very immediate
and intuitive manner and as I began playing with the layers of pinks,
I began to think of Mark Rothko’s color field paintings. The
way he created a surface that enveloped the viewer in the sublime space,
while embracing the flat picture plane always spoke to me. So I used
the layers of pinks to create a subtle sense of depth that allowed
the bold patterned white and black fabrics to float in their space.
I used the grid quilting and the chopsticks for movement and to reassert
the two dimensional plane. I work until I can’t change one little
thing without changing the entire piece and then make myself stop.
When I can lose myself in the surface and forms without feeling like
I need something the quilt tells me that it is complete.

To me, quilts made of solid
colors are the purest expressions of design in fiber arts. Here
there is only one color plus black, and the simplest of design
elements -- the line -- but I see a vast landscape starting at
my feet and stretching to the horizon and beyond.

Alice McGunigle
Shippenville, PA

I started working with these
pink and black fabrics in a kind of spontaneous way. I was very
surprised to see a Gothic Cathedral start to take form. I added
a rose window using pink snippets and black netting. Then I used
Quilter’s lamé to make a door and gothic style windows.
It is quilted using Sliver and cotton threads.

An unusual nine-patch,
with all units connected by pink wire and grommets. The
eight outer units were free-motion quilted, with small, cut-out "windows" in
each piece, satin-stitched in pink with white & black
fabric showing through the openings. The center unit consists
of a rectangle of Timtex painted with Lumiere's Halo Pink
gold and topped with a pink-painted skeleton leaf.

Cynthia Morgan
Boulder, CO

Artist's
Statement: A perfect start to my day... pink grapefruit and a TO
DO list. My quilt is constructed with pieced background, needleturn
and raw-edge fused applique, hand painted objects/shadows using
commercial cottons, then machine quilted with cotton and metallic
threads.

While painting on fabric with
used CDs and Setacolor, the resulting image looked like a woman's
breast to a coworker. Somehow the Wardrebe Malfunction idea took
flight. The hand reaches over to pull down the bustier, which actually
does pull down, revealing the naked breast image. The names "Janet" and "Justin" are
quilted in the flesh area, as is "Superbowl 2003". FCC
and CBS are also quilted into the flesh area, but as I quilted, I
wondered who really should have paid that indecency fine?

Dale Anne Potter
Morse, Saskatchewan, Canada

Rose
is a Rose is my adventure into the world of abstract. I simply
just thought of petals and cut. I used the top-stitch applique
method explained by Ellen Linder and had fun added all the
other pieces of fabric. The gray is actually a baby wipe used to clean off a rubber stamp, as you can see
it was black ink that was being wiped. Worked perfect for this application.

IN
THE PINK was inspired by my design called Cornflower Blues
for my pattern company, INNOVATIONS. The flower block is an
original design, but for this piece, I deviated a bit from
the pattern, which is something that I enjoy doing! Machine
pieced and machine quilted.

The sailboat in a bottle
represents her life’s journey interrupted by breast cancer’s
stormy seas.

The
hourglass rotates, turns and transforms into a butterfly
and then into flying geese, leaving us behind at the young
age of 43 and in pieces in October 2004.

Normal cells at the top
to the quilt transform into cancer cells at the bottom.

The two flowers represent
her children 7 and 10 with sweet memories.

No matter what was happening,
she used to say, “I am working to Heal.”

Margaret Bender was an
inspiration in her determination and zest for living and will
greatly be missed.

Norma Schlager
Danbury, CT

I used a piece of each of the
fabrics in my vast black and white stash and collaged them using
raw edge applique´and fusing, I then scattered this base
with found pink items such as paper clips, buttons, spangles and
beads. After covering with tulle, I free motion quilted the top
with pink thread writing as many "pink" phrases as I
could think of. Of course I thought of several more after it was
completed.

Pink is great to work with.
This quilt was fun from the beginning and kept flowing to the
end. The play of color creates drama and stitching added dimension.
The various sizes and shapes of netting I used on top gave the
quilt motion. I used commercial and hand-dyed cottons and silks.
I pieced and fused, but mostly quilted the heck out of it.

Janice Simpson
Marquette,Michigan

I started gathering black,white
and pink fabrics and didn't know what I'd make.I was looking
thru a catalog featuring fabric and came across some halloween
fabrics with little witches....the idea was born. I drew a
little sketch for my quilt and started cutting freezer paper
patterns till I was happy with the size,shape ect. Next cut,
cut,sew,quilt and embellish with beads and sequins and soon
my quilt Flying in the Pink was ready for photo's. My pink
witch is flying across a full moon in darkened sky with houses
far below. Tiny cats on the roof tops and a row of flying geese
across the top...all in black,white and pink!!

A road sign, warning the
driver that a sharp curve is coming up was the inspiration
for this piece.

Reverse appliqué,
machine embroidery and beading are some of the techniques used.

Cynthia St. Charles
Billings, Montana

Starting with plain black
fabric, this floral image was created using bleach to discharge
(remove) the black color. The resulting color was a lovely salmon
pink shade. Machine stitching clarifies the image and beads add
dimension.

Best
of Show and First Place – Yellowstone Quilt Fest, Cody,
Wyoming, September 2004

The method used to make
the quilt is stitch and slash. A block is made such as a 9
patch and slash into 2 pieces. The pieces are stitched together
at random and slashed again and stitched at random. Then the
piecing of the quilt begins with added strips of fabric.

Artist's Statement: I dislike
the winter, everything takes on a colorless cast early in the morning
and I made this little piece to depict my feelings about what I saw.
The rain being the only hope that the colorless darkness will be
wash away and Spring will come to bring the colors back.

Betsy True
Alexandria, VA

This
piece was made for the Quilt Art Black, White and Pink challenge.
I used photos for the background, covered with a shiny black
sheer fabric, representing reflections in a mirror. I composed
the design on the computer, combining the background photos,
my drawing (done from another photo), and the tile floor which
I drew in. Machine pieced and quilted; hand beaded. Commercial
fabrics.

I used the saying 'You Say Black
I Say White' to start off my challenge. The piece has many meanings.
Not only do people disagree, see things differently, argue black
is white, but internally there is a struggle. I sometimes dont agree
with myself and the pink faces represent the frustration of trying
to resolve the turmoil within.

I searched in the scrap bags to find any and all fabrics related to pink.
I built the faces up on interfacing then stitched them onto the backing fabric.
For the hair I chose black and white fabrics ironed onto a black or a white
fabric to highlight the pieces. Machine stitched and quilted after all the
layers were together.
My first challenge and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Fran Wessel
Santa Rosa, CA

White satin, fuchsia spandex, cotton black and white fabric. Black border
is mock croc skin. Web is cotton thread in triple stitch. Spider is
a campy plastic one from Holloween. At first I placed the plastic on
the quilt just to see where I should embroider the permanent one, but
he looks so kooky I decided I liked his!